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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Kick Your Ass in 17 Minutes. is the debut studio album by Los Angeles rock band The Drills, fronted by Canadian guitarist, singer and songwriter Phil X. It is the only album to feature the first Drills line-up. The last track is a medley of vocals taken from the rest of the album.
The All Japan Members Badminton Championships [1] [2] or All Japan Society Badminton Championships [3] (Japanese: 全日本社会人バドミントン選手権大会) is a national badminton tournament organized by the Nippon Badminton Association. The first All Japan Members Badminton Championships was founded in 1958 and has been held every ...
There is also a separate U.S. Open Badminton Championships which is open to foreign competitors. The history of the two tournaments is rather complicated. Prior to 1954 all U.S. Badminton Championships had a "closed" format with only U.S. citizens and residents eligible to compete. From 1954 through 1969 the tournament was open to foreign ...
Love All Play (Japanese: ラブオールプレー, Hepburn: Rabu Ōru Purē) is a Japanese badminton-themed novel series written by Asami Koseki.Poplar Publishing have published four volumes between May 2011 and March 2014 under their Poplar Bunko Pureful imprint.
USA Badminton used to train its elite players at a national training center in Colorado Springs, but they relocated to Anaheim in early 2017. [7] Badminton is not a popular sport in the United States for several reasons. One of the main reasons is that badminton in the U.S. is seen as a backyard sport. Due to this, the sport has not grown much.
Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy (PGBA) is a badminton training facility in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. [1] Founded in 2008 by the 2001 All England Open Badminton champion Pullela Gopichand, the facility trains several badminton players such as Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Srikanth Kidambi, Parupalli Kashyap, H.S. Prannoy, Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma.
Badminton was first held as a demonstration sport at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and was an exhibition sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics; the men's and women's singles and doubles have been held at every Summer Olympics since the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1] The mixed doubles badminton tournament started in the 1996 Summer Olympics. [2]